Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-01-05
NEWS CONDENSED.
TsIegraphic Summary Of Impor.
tant Happenings at Home
and Abroad.
THE EAST.

Logan was delivered by Bishop Andrews,
of the Methodist Church. Among the pail
bearers were Gen. Sherman, Roscoe Conk-
ling, Postmaster General Villas, Fred d.
Grant, and Senator Stanford. Mrs. Cleve-
land was in attendance, but the President
was advised by his physicians not to VEN
ture out in the fog. There was large rep
resentation Of the Cabinet, the Supreme
Court, and both houses Of Congress.
THE Presidents New Years reception at
the White House was grand success.
Though not entirely recovered from his
rheumatic troubles the President looked in
good health and was in excellent spirits.
On New Years night the thermometer regis
tered 26 degrees below zero, the coolest SO
far Of the winter at that point.
The business failures throughout Can
ada for the year 1886 number 1852, with
liabilities Of S10,3S6,00O, against 1856
failures in 1885, with liabilities of $S,SS1,-
900. The average liabilities Of each failure
in 1886 is 81, 1895, as against an average of
81 ,O55 in 1885.
The members Of family at Pittsburg,
Pa, were attacked with trichinosis in its
worst form last Saturday, after having
eaten of raw ham, which was found 10 be
alive with parasites. Two Of the family
will die.
The Medical Record says the case Of the
late Gen. Logan appears to be one of those
rare ones in which acute rheumatism causes
rapid and fatal issue.
THREE men were killed, four severely
wounded and fifty others injured by the ex-
plosion of two large boilers in the factory
of ]. F. Seiberling & Co., at Akren, Ohio.
TEE fact that President Cleveland is
suffering from the same trouble that caused
the death of Gen. Logan creates no little
concern as to his condition each day.
While he is not reported as being seriously
| i'll. { is known that his rheumatic affection
has been very painful at times, confning
him to his bed for several days ut time.
THE Presidents health is said to be rap
idly improving.
THE general land Office has received re-
ports during the past week showing the re-
moval Of fences from twenty Enclosures,
embracing over 274, 900 acres of land, prin-
| cipally in the Denver land district.
TIMOTHY WRIGHT. of New York, has
filed bill against his agent, Thomas Ly-
man, for an accounting and discovery,
claiming that Lyman failed to account foi
an estate worth nearly s3,OoO,ooo. The
estate is scattered through Chicago, Wi
netka and Wrightwood. Wright claims
that .dnsing his absence his titles have beer
gradually wiped out by means of foreclos.
ure suits without his knowledge. The bill
says no account has been rendered by Ly-
man since 1876.
BURoHARD AUSTIN HAYES, eldest sor
of ex-President Hayes, was married al
Norwalk, Ohio, on the 30th to Miss Mary
N. Sherman. Young Hayes is q member
of Toledo law firm, and his bride is the
daughter of prominent Ohio politician.
The Cincinnati Cooperage Company's
works are being operated under police pro.
lection, owing to the interference Of strik-
ing operatives with men employed to take
their places.
ANOTHER heiress to millions has cap.
tured coacbman. 1t has just come to
light that Miss Jessie Barnard, grand
daughter and heiress of the late Louis
Barnard, founder of the noted Barnard
Mills, Fall River, Mass, married hel
grandfather's coachmaa OH the 26th of last
August. The groom is young Irishmar
26 years old. His name is Phillip Scully
| CHARLES H. RAYMOND, q dealer in
hardware supplies for twenty-five year,
in New York. made an assignment on The
2sth with preferences amounting to S207,.
600. The amount of his liabilities is est.
mated to be nearly 100000.
A NUMBER of Eastern insurance com.
panies are resisting ON their policies issued
to John F. Taylor, of South Norwalk
Conn.,, who suicided last November afte
having written insurance on his life TO til,
amount of $3l5, 1000.
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